BHendri5
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I just finished rewatching the game, other than our normal runs into the middle of the line on the 11 times we ran on first down versus the 7/8 times we passed on first downs, the play calling looked like what we had been doing the previous 3 games, just watered down to get the plays in quickly so that Dak would have time to try to audible due to the crowd noise, but those plays were Kellen Moore's design, there was no mistaking that.
I stand by what I have said before and what a few other knowledgeable posters have said, the offensive line was beat all night save the opening drive in the 3rd quarter, and the only reason I am saying they may have won on that drive is because we scored a TD.
The crowd noise is a real thing, and we never took them out of the game, if it comes down to us playing them again in the playoffs no matter where the game is played we will win.
Zeke never had an opportunity to make anyone miss, so everyone that complained about that need to stop it. He caught a few passes out of the backfield but as soon as he caught the balls he was tackled he never had an opportunity to focus catch the ball and to turn and run, as soon as the pass was caught he was contacted by the defender.
We shot ourselves in the foot, and the refs shot us as well. Jarwin caught a pass that should have been a first down to keep a drive going but he ran his route a foot short of the marker, they called a bogus PI on Cooper that killed another drive, they ruled Zeke fumbled when his elbow was clearly on the ground. Witten got the ball punched out from behind. OLine getting pushed back into Dak not giving him time to look down the field.
No, even though the plays were watered down, it was a Kellen Moore play calling and nothing made me even think of Linehan.
The defense played very good, but there were a few things, like Mike Thomas was not going to beat any of our DBs deep we should have been his face all night. Robert Quinn played another heck of a game with his tireless motor, but just like I said against the dolphins he kept running himself up the field past the QB, yes he provided pressure all night, and he had 2 sacks he should have had at least 3 more, but as I said he runs himself up the field, when he should go up the field 3/4 steps and then head directly toward the QB, or up the field and then go under the Tackle, a lot more because he did do it a few times just not enough, too many times I saw him go past his man and the tackle would just push him on up past the QB.
With the crowd noise we did not audible and do a whole lot of motion, but we did have motion just not as much as a lot of people wanted.
At the end of the day,we lost the game, we will be alright this season, we will beat GB!
I always say that we will go 19-0 whenever I am asked before the season, but I know that is very hard to do the odds are greatly against that, just asked the patriots.
But I do believe we will or can go 15-1, 14-2, no less than 13-3 the regular season.
Oh, one last thing we had a good game plan, you have to give the saints defense credit, and you have to place the majority of the blame on our Offensive Line, we go as they go. When the OLine comes to play the run game is great , the passing game is great and the play calling even the in game adjustments are good, and that's with any team, not just with our team, but our OLIne is built to run the ball, so any and everyone knows that and that is what they harp on, which makes casual fans and unknowing fans and those fans that think they know, not realize that the game is won and lost in the trenches, because without the Oline and Dline doing their jobs you will have pretty sorry teams, because you cannot block or stop anyone to win a game.
We were OUTPLAYED, versus OuTCOACHED, the saints coaching staff did not do anything more spectacular than our staff, ! Sean Peyton called the game the way he needed to with the QB he had, he played it very close to the vest and took what he could get against our defense. With Brees yes, it could have been different, but they had Brees last season and he did not do much they lost last season to us, it was another close game,
I stand by what I have said before and what a few other knowledgeable posters have said, the offensive line was beat all night save the opening drive in the 3rd quarter, and the only reason I am saying they may have won on that drive is because we scored a TD.
The crowd noise is a real thing, and we never took them out of the game, if it comes down to us playing them again in the playoffs no matter where the game is played we will win.
Zeke never had an opportunity to make anyone miss, so everyone that complained about that need to stop it. He caught a few passes out of the backfield but as soon as he caught the balls he was tackled he never had an opportunity to focus catch the ball and to turn and run, as soon as the pass was caught he was contacted by the defender.
We shot ourselves in the foot, and the refs shot us as well. Jarwin caught a pass that should have been a first down to keep a drive going but he ran his route a foot short of the marker, they called a bogus PI on Cooper that killed another drive, they ruled Zeke fumbled when his elbow was clearly on the ground. Witten got the ball punched out from behind. OLine getting pushed back into Dak not giving him time to look down the field.
No, even though the plays were watered down, it was a Kellen Moore play calling and nothing made me even think of Linehan.
The defense played very good, but there were a few things, like Mike Thomas was not going to beat any of our DBs deep we should have been his face all night. Robert Quinn played another heck of a game with his tireless motor, but just like I said against the dolphins he kept running himself up the field past the QB, yes he provided pressure all night, and he had 2 sacks he should have had at least 3 more, but as I said he runs himself up the field, when he should go up the field 3/4 steps and then head directly toward the QB, or up the field and then go under the Tackle, a lot more because he did do it a few times just not enough, too many times I saw him go past his man and the tackle would just push him on up past the QB.
With the crowd noise we did not audible and do a whole lot of motion, but we did have motion just not as much as a lot of people wanted.
At the end of the day,we lost the game, we will be alright this season, we will beat GB!
I always say that we will go 19-0 whenever I am asked before the season, but I know that is very hard to do the odds are greatly against that, just asked the patriots.
But I do believe we will or can go 15-1, 14-2, no less than 13-3 the regular season.
Oh, one last thing we had a good game plan, you have to give the saints defense credit, and you have to place the majority of the blame on our Offensive Line, we go as they go. When the OLine comes to play the run game is great , the passing game is great and the play calling even the in game adjustments are good, and that's with any team, not just with our team, but our OLIne is built to run the ball, so any and everyone knows that and that is what they harp on, which makes casual fans and unknowing fans and those fans that think they know, not realize that the game is won and lost in the trenches, because without the Oline and Dline doing their jobs you will have pretty sorry teams, because you cannot block or stop anyone to win a game.
We were OUTPLAYED, versus OuTCOACHED, the saints coaching staff did not do anything more spectacular than our staff, ! Sean Peyton called the game the way he needed to with the QB he had, he played it very close to the vest and took what he could get against our defense. With Brees yes, it could have been different, but they had Brees last season and he did not do much they lost last season to us, it was another close game,
